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Short answers on flaring, methane, costs and carbon rules in oil and gas. To see them worked out with your own operating data, book a demo.
Carbonova connects SCADA, flow-metering and energy data to CarbonOS, a platform of AI agents that calculates emissions by source (combustion, flaring, venting, and fugitives estimated from process data), flags drift and ranks measures by cost per tonne of CO₂ avoided. Carbonova Sense, now at pilot stage, infers a flare’s combustion state on the asset itself. The same dataset feeds GHG Protocol, ISSB-aligned and customer reporting, with an audit trail back to the source.
The largest sources are fuel burned for power and gas compression, flaring, and methane released through venting and leaks. The world flared 167 billion cubic meters of gas in 2025, the third annual increase in a row (World Bank, 2026). And around 70% of methane emissions from fossil fuels could be cut with technology that already exists (IEA, 2026).
Oil and gas facilities report under Subpart W of EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. EPA has proposed suspending most of it until reporting year 2034, but the rule is not final, and it moved the deadline for 2025 data to March 10, 2027. Exporters also face the EU Methane Regulation: from January 1, 2027, EU importers’ contracts signed or renewed since August 4, 2024 must cover oil and gas produced under monitoring and reporting equivalent to EU rules, though the Commission has recommended no penalties for 2027 to 2029.
Yes, for facilities placed in service after July 4, 2025: they earn the same rate for CO₂ used in enhanced oil recovery or utilization as for secure geologic storage, up to $85 per tonne when prevailing-wage and apprenticeship rules are met. Construction must begin before January 1, 2033. Carbonova’s planning agent compares capture with flaring, venting and fuel-efficiency measures on your real data and ranks them by cost per tonne of CO₂ avoided.
Sense, now at pilot stage, runs on the asset and combines radiometric LWIR thermal imaging, RGB vision and an acoustic proxy to infer the flare’s state: lit and normal, smoking, degraded, flameout, venting or no flow. Operators see at once when the flame goes out or combustion degrades. Vented methane is quantified only for confirmed venting, from SCADA flow data. Sense is not a methane sensor and does not detect leaks.
Yes. Every value has lineage back to its source in SCADA, ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle, or meters, plus a versioned emission factor and a change history, in line with the ISO 14064-3 verification standard. That matters because methane reporting is moving from estimates to measurement: OGMP 2.0, the industry’s reference framework, has 153 member companies covering 42% of global oil and gas production (UNEP, 2025).
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